why do black women want straight hair, like white women?

[Black_indeed]

Abdula wrote:

Why do black women want straight hair like white women but don't want the black man to date a white woman? White women love their hair. Is straight hair really better?

I rather see our black women with a thick healthy natural crop - no weave, or straighter. Even the very short natural crop is pleasing on the eye; I'm really digging the way Kanye's new girlfriend, Amber Rose, wear her hair...
And IMHO, a lot of black women still don't like to see black men with anyother race. But the same can be said about white women. Ultimately, there's still a lot of race hating on both sides of the fence.

[Black_indeed]

aunt jemima wrote:

um hmmmm, you tell em gurl.
Ain't no black man goin be hangin on ant white biches, no one likes that nazty thin hair on em head. White gurls tryin to be black anyway dont deny it ladys, where you think them dance moves in da club come from. also you white gurls aint got azzez or hips, black gurls got da figure and da moves!!!

LMAO...
I know you didn't say that white women don't have azzez or hips... You have to come out of that time capsules. I'm not really into "Pink Toes" but even I can see the white women are starting to fill out. That's been the talk among real brothers for a couple years now.
But, you are right about the way a sistah moves/flows. Can't beat that with a bat. Keep it real.

[NYChoney]

Black_indeed wrote:

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LMAO...
I know you didn't say that white women don't have azzez or hips... You have to come out of that time capsules. I'm not really into "Pink Toes" but even I can see the white women are starting to fill out. That's been the talk among real brothers for a couple years now.
But, you are right about the way a sistah moves/flows. Can't beat that with a bat. Keep it real.

Maybe not the American white women, some European ones like from Serbia, Italy, etc may tend to be curvier like many sistahs are....but then again the ones in the south that's valid as well, I'm in North Carolina right now for a family and I see the difference.

[NYChoney]

*family reunion

[Smile_Of_Evil]

It shouldnt matter if a person wants to wear their hair long, short, straight, curly, or nappy... Everybody has the right to wear their hair how they want to... Its not illegal for a black girl to wear her hair straigh so until it is ppl need to get over it...

[iknowwhatimtalki ngabout]

listen im black and i straighten my hair because well thats y we have flat irons
who ever said white people are suppose to be the only ones with straight har. i do this for me
not to please anyone eles but to please myself whether my hair is straight, curly, nappy or knotty...i still get dudes!

[chrystal thomas]

djhixx wrote:

<quoted text>straight hair is better!!! whether its curly, kinky, short, thin hair, its not seen as sexy and attractive. most outfits look good with long straight or wavy hair. my Chinese cousins are soooooooo lucky! i just like how Asians have naturally straight and long hair. my hair is long and silky, but CURLY!!! you can't do much with curly hair.
the good thing about kinky hair is that you can style it so many ways, but you still have to alter it to look presentable. you can't just wet and comb your hair without doing stuff to it. blacks are just as guilty as non blacks to respond negatively to nappy hair. i see how some black girls make fun of another black girl who skipped her monthly perm.
thank god for my hair.

most black people hair is as better as the white folks head. you can style balck people hair in different ways but the white folks and asians hair you cant do anything to it but leave it straight

[chrystal thomas]

im luck to have good nappy hair because i can straighten it, curl it, put it in a style and dont even have to worry about it falling down!

[Tropics]

Abdula wrote:

Why do black women want straight hair like white women but don't want the black man to date a white woman? White women love their hair. Is straight hair really better?

White women are not the only one with straight hair! Most Indian,Asian,middle eastern women have staraight hair.

[Jasmine]

If this isn't one of the most ridiculous topics to discuss. Black women should be allowed to sport what ever hair style that they want to without any comment from anybody else. What does straight hair have to do with Caucasian women, you think that they invented straight hair or something? Conversely do you think that everybody in Africa is sporting a fro...no! And people keep mentioning slavery, white women in slave times didn't even wear their hair down unless they were about to go to bed, cause otherwise it would be seen as immodest. I like my hair down because it frames my face, cause my cheek bones are extremely high that you can tell I'm smiling from the back...I don't like it so I have my hair cover it up, although I stopped relaxing it, and now just condition and straighten with a flat iron for the same results...Now about black men dating white women, why do we need to use colors when we determine who we date, if you like a woman and you want to date her, that is your right to do so, same for women, you shouldn't barred from dating or marrying someone just because you don't happen to be the same color...I'm 18, grew up in an all black community, listened to my damn near racist mother, and have still figured all this out.

[GhanaStar]

these are the facts of the matter. SO LISTEN UP, and let me learn you something!. historically black women (and even some black men) permed their hair to emulate white people. because we were brainwashed to think that anything" white" was better. after decades of this practice, straightening hair has become so ingrained in black women, it has become the norm. on the flip side black men have come to accept this standard of beauty. unfortunately people engage in this practice without realizing the roots of it. but take a second to think why if a black person has light or curly hair it is referred to as "good hair", leaving coarse bushy hair to be considered "nappy" ie bad. i myself have been told countless times that i have "good hair", something that seems to be an anomaly seeing as i am a dark skinned black man from Africa!

[Alilyana_Jasmine _]

If you perm your hair it becomes curly not straight, if you "relax" your hair then it becomes straight. And this is not only in the black community, historically Whites used irons to straighten their hair, cause guess what even they knew that straighter her while not necessarily pretty was more manageable than curly hair, and many White females in the past, if they had straight hair it would be called limp, lanky, and other words. And once again White women did not even wear their hair down as the norm until about 40 years ago, this being after Madame C.J. Walker created her hair care inventions for Blacks. Before this wearing your hair down unless you were a child was seen as wanton, or that you were trying to attract the wrong kind of attention, look up photos of Whites 100 years ago and tell me how many of them you see with their hair down. And if it was was it really straight or were curls present?

[the bomb]

You people Bore Me wrote:

You all are idiots. Whatever the dominant culture is ie; European/white people, that's what people are going to want to be. That's why people all over the world are bleaching their skin, straightening and BLEACHING their hair blonde and asians are getting eye surgery. This is a result of mental colonialism.
When black (African)people first saw white people they felt sorry for them and thought their straight hair looked weird. Soon as they were enslaved/economically colonized and were told their hair was nappy and ugly they started believing it was the truth.
That's how Anglo-saxons were able to achieve global economic and territorial domination. You don't just physically oppress people, you psychologically and mentally damage them.
So now black women are losing their hair to get ridiculous Euro weaves and burning their hair with stupid hot combs just so it can lay flat and dead on their head.
Straight hair isn't bad, if it's natural to you. But I don't find it interesting.
Btw, I'm a black woman with luscious dreads! Loooove my hair now.

Why are white women getting skin cancer because they want to have dark skin like us

[Nadege]

most of the time its not about being white, its just easier (for some)to straighten it, a nd many women have straight hair just not white, arab, greek, indian, hispanic, native american, why arent jewish and greek and middle eastern women accused of the same thing when they go blond or straighten out their curls. sometimes its just about what you like and what is easier to manage

[GhanaStar]

Alilyana_Jasmine_ wrote:

If you perm your hair it becomes curly not straight, if you "relax" your hair then it becomes straight. And this is not only in the black community, historically Whites used irons to straighten their hair, cause guess what even they knew that straighter her while not necessarily pretty was more manageable than curly hair, and many White females in the past, if they had straight hair it would be called limp, lanky, and other words. And once again White women did not even wear their hair down as the norm until about 40 years ago, this being after Madame C.J. Walker created her hair care inventions for Blacks. Before this wearing your hair down unless you were a child was seen as wanton, or that you were trying to attract the wrong kind of attention, look up photos of Whites 100 years ago and tell me how many of them you see with their hair down. And if it was was it really straight or were curls present?

I hear you, but i am not concerned with the style and whether the hair was down or up. i'm saying that black people were made to believe the ideal of beauty was to look as much as white people as possible. lets keep it real, for many generations in black community the lighter skinned and stringy haired you were the pretty you were!!!!!!! lets keep it real....

[Alilyana_Jasmine _]

GhanaStar wrote:

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I hear you, but i am not concerned with the style and whether the hair was down or up. i'm saying that black people were made to believe the ideal of beauty was to look as much as white people as possible. lets keep it real, for many generations in black community the lighter skinned and stringy haired you were the pretty you were!!!!!!! lets keep it real....

No for many generations if you were light skinned or had long hair you were picked on and bullied and were guaranteed to get into fights because you looked white, you can find many stories of this kind all around, it is only fairly recent that lighter skin has been termed beautiful. Native Americans have hair that's straighter than any Whites, and they were still outcasts, but no one notices that though.

[BeautifulNikk08]

girl i LOOOOOOOOVES my coarse hair because the texture or BLACK WOMENS hair is stronger. Thick... and we have more styles having straight hair is a suggestion some white women want braids and to be honest braids are not meant to be in a white womans hair because of the thin texture will pull a white womans hair out.... unfortunately so it not that we really stuck on straight hair its a preferences but i LOve bushy hair.....next topic

[MzNora89]

Abdula wrote:

Of course white women aren't the only ones with straight hair, however, how many white women do you know that will pay hundreds of dollars to get kinky hair weaved into their heads?

Of course they have!! LOL I've seen white women who get curly perms! who want to wear dreads and stuff. Dude you really need to open your eyes to the world

[kimberly]

I have pretty natural straw bery blond hair....which looks very blond in the summer...I once had a woman with over processed bleach blond hair accuse me of bleaching my natural hair to look like hers.......I think she was delusional....she was also having an affair with a black man.....that I worked with...when I had ask her about her relationship with this man...she told me it was the hair..... his fantasy....I looked at her to be crazy.....why can't people just accept who they are......

[Daphne]

justiz4once wrote:

For the record, white women perm their hair to make it curly like ours. Black women are diverse, we come in all shapes, shades and sizes. We don't envy white women on their best days, not with that thin head of hair that starts to bald when they age...And don't get me on aging..white women hit a wall at an early age. They look like someone balled their face up like a piece of paper and tried to straighten it back out at the age of 30.

White women do not perm their hair to be 'curly' like yours. African American hair is not the white standard for curly. And frankly,
And no, I am not white. I am half white and half black, but to tell the truth I've always desired perfect, straight, Native American hair. This is not to say I dislike the hair of any race. You don't fight insult with insult.